TY - BOOK ID - 23115162 TI - Hrotsvit of Gandersheim : contexts, identities, affinities, and performances AU - Brown, Phyllis R. AU - McMillin, Linda A. AU - Wilson, Katharina M AU - University of Toronto Press PY - 2004 SN - 0802089623 1442655224 9786611992644 144267590X 128199264X DB - UniCat KW - Christian drama, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Théâtre chrétien latin médiéval et moderne KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Hrotsvitha, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Hrotsvitha KW - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Christianity and literature KW - Women and literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Literature KW - Literature and Christianity KW - Christian literature KW - Gandersheim, Roswitha von, KW - Hrosvit von Gandersheim, KW - Hroswitha von Gandersheim, KW - Hrotsvit, KW - Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis, KW - Rosvita, KW - Roswitha von Gandersheim, UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23115162 AB - Hrotsvit was the first dramatist of Christianity, the first female Saxon poet, the first Germanic author to employ the Faust theme, and one of the first Western writers to compose a Christian epic. The essays in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim examine the historical, cultural, legal, and political contexts of Hrotsvit's works, locating her opus within the tenth-century aristocratic and clerical intellectual milieu. This collection contextualizes Hrotsvit's works with respect to heroic, sexual, domestic, behavioural, linguistic, theological, and hierarchical aspects of early medieval and patristic literary traditions. It also explores other literary texts that inform Hrotsvit's works and discusses the performance history and theatricality of Hrotsvit's plays. Hrotsvit's keen awareness of contemporary issues and her determination, within the parameters of monastic-aristocratic ideological constraints, to provide her readers with a rich variety of exemplary female heroes and acts of personal courage, offer twenty-first-century readers a powerful model of responsibility and agency. ER -